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(No Model.) J. 0. BELKNAP.

ADVERTISING DEVIGE.

No. 244,371. 3 Patented July 19,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACKSON 0. BELKNAP, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,371, dated July 19, 1881,

Application filed May 2, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J AGKSON O. BELKNAP, of the city of St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Advertising Medium, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in the arrangement of one or more strips of sheet metal or of wire, and combined in such manner, with or without springs, as to form hooks to en gage with the top and bottom of a gas-globe, in combination with a holder or shelf for the display of cards or pictures or other objects.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and useful medium for advertising by the exhibition and display of business-cards, pictures, statuettes, jewelry, or ornaments in or upon holders or racks supported by lamps or gasglobes and illuminated by the light from the burner, either in front or from the rear.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 shows a front view of the advertising card or picture mounted in its proper position on one style of holder on the rear of the globe. Fig. 2 shows a side view of the same thing with the globe turned one-quarter around, and both views showing the burner in the globe.

A is the holder, B the globe, O the burner, and D the card or picture.

E is a strip of metal, to which the holder or shelf Ais attached at its upper extremity. At the point IE it is bent upwardly, and at IE it is formed into the shape of a hook to engage with the top of the gas-globe. At E is attached, by a spring. or otherwise, a piece-of metal, G, having a hook, G, at its lower extremity, to engage with the bottom of the gasg globe. I

The branch piece, together with the grooved piece, may be permanently attached to or may 40 be detachable, by a socket or otherwise, from the strip which clamps the globe; orthe strip, branch piece, and grooved piece can all be made together, composed of one strip of metal, bent in a shape to form a complete holder. 4 5

When both sides of the cards are in view both sides may have letters or pictures upon them.

To exhibit transparent or translucent cards or pictures they must be arranged upon the front of the globe, before the light, instead of behind it, as described for opaque cards and other articles.

I am aware that transparent and other business-cards have been hung upon the edges of gas-globes by wire hooks, the card lying close against the side of the globe, which I do not claim. My invention places the card above and at a certain distance from the side of the globe upon a holder; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The strip of metal E, bent so as to conform to the shape of the gas-globe, and having at tached at its upper extremity a holder or shelf,

A, and provided with a hook, E, also having attached at the curved part E a piece of metal, G, provided with hook G, as desclibed, and for the purposes set forth.

JACKSON 0. BELKNAP.

Witnesses:

ROBERT W. PORTER, CHARLES SANFORD. 

